University lectures & courses
MIT OpenCourseWare · Discussed on HN from 2020 to 2025
Patrick Winston's long-running MIT lecture on public speaking teaches heuristic rules for talks. It covers how to start, use time and place, boards, props and slides, and how to inform, persuade and finish.
Read the notesPatrick Winston's lecture on giving effective talks.
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BossingAround · 2020-02 · 17 recommenders across 16 months
HN treats it as the best starting point for really understanding backprop and neural nets, because Karpathy explains the why with intuition and builds everything in code.
AT&T Tech Channel
HN repeatedly calls it the clearest introduction to waves and transmission-line behavior, better than modern explainers.
One of the most consistently recommended lecture series on HN, praised as fascinating, funny and eye-opening about human behavior across many scales.
